<<PORTSMOUTH MP Mike Hancock has denied his assistant is a Russian spy.
It comes as a newspaper reports that she is facing deportation from the UK after security services arrested her on suspicion of espionage.>>

I understand that he was dumped as the Chair of the Commons (?) Russian Committee for being pro-Putin. And don't you think that she would have had to get a security pass (and possibly be vetted) to work there? And don't you think that would have made alarm bells ring in the security world? yes to both and clearly they have been watching her for some time.

The MP is no stranger to controversy and is currently on police bail over claims that he attempted to seduce a vulnerable constituent.

In the past two months he [Hancock] has tabled a number of written questions to the MoD. They include requests for the locations of berths for submarines, the publication of a historical inventory of the country's nuclear arsenal and details of when the next design review of the Trident warhead will take place.

Ah, the Daily Mail. A hotbed of misogyny, press-release advertising recycled as news, outright lies intended to spark indignation in the kind of person who reads it, and their never-ending quest to group all substances and activities in the universe as either causing or curing cancer (brilliantly, sometimes both). Good for a laugh but not to be taken seriously

I doubt if MI5 will want us to dwell too long on a how young Rusian woman got to be able to run free in the HofP for three years.Similarly Mr Hancock must be very naive when he says that he doesn't get to see anything classified so the Russians would not be interested in him.

The latest from The Mail (but, as Uncle Albert has said, is apparently only 'Good for a laugh but not to be taken seriously'):

<<The KGBâ€™s former London station chief said the 25-year-old was working undercover for Russian foreign intelligence, the SVR. Mr Gordievsky, 72, said: â€˜She gathered information about British naval bases around the world.

â€˜She asked important military questions, passed them to the MP, who then pushed them up the chain. Once answers arrived, she read them, re-wrote them, copied, and passed the copies to KGB agents.â€™

The claims by Mr Gordievsky, who has maintained close links with the international security community since fleeing Russia to the UK 25 years ago, were made in an interview last week with Russiaâ€™s Radio Svoboda.>>

â€˜She asked important military questions, passed them to the MP, who then pushed them up the chain. Once answers arrived, she read them, re-wrote them, copied, and passed the copies to KGB agents.â€™

The claims by Mr Gordievsky, who has maintained close links with the international security community since fleeing Russia to the UK 25 years ago, were made in an interview last week with Russiaâ€™s Radio Svoboda.

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It's surprising Hancock still has a job, but then again the security services prefer to know who their adversaries are, rather than displace one and then have to track an unknown replacement. (Bin Laden being an obvious case in point - or is that a double-bluff?).

It was amusing to hear some of his constituents vouch for the fact he's a "really nice chap, very popular" - he even voted against tuition fees, swoon. Funnily enough, even the fat bald bloke (Bond Villain - For Your Eyes Only) was nice to his cat, whilst trying to annihilate civilisation, so it would follow that to remain an MP, you need to gain the popular vote, even if you're a 'baddie'. :wink: